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He is stiff, boring and frequently just plain irritating. Whereas the heroes of the previous King's Quest games had interesting and often amusing personalities, Conner seems completely devoid of any personality.

His lines are short, stilted bits of medieval-sounding English and he lacks the humor you might expect from a King's Quest hero. Mask of Eternity suffers most from what could have been its greatest strength. The game is a hybrid of the newer, real-time action type games and the more traditional puzzle-solving adventure games of old. Putting the two together sounds good and the idea is one that will likely be explored further in the future Bethesda Softworks' Redguard comes to mind.

What happens with Mask, though, is that the game doesn't quite succeed in being either, so it fails trying to be both. The fights are complicated and boring and while many of the puzzles are good, other important trademarks of a good graphic adventure e.

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity is enjoyable despite its faults but not as enjoyable as it could and should be. If Sierra decides to extend the King's Quest series beyond this eighth installment, Mask will likely be seen as the transition game from one phase to the next.

This one's a little rough but you have the feeling that next time Sierra could build from it and deliver a much better game. If this is it for the series, though, it will probably go down as an admirable but unsuccessful effort to save an important icon of computer game history. How to run this game on modern Windows PC?

Contact: , done in 0. Search a Classic Game:. It's not entirely dissimilar to the Zelda games on Super Nintendo, except obviously in glorious 3D. In fact, I've seen the gorgeous-looking 3Dfx version running and it looks even better than Zelda on the Nintendo If you're finding all this a little confusing, a more familiar point of reference will probably be Sierra's own Quest For Glory series. As you progress through the game your strength increases in proportion to the number of enemies you've nobbled, your intelligence increases as you cast spells, your dexterity increases as you continuously jump out of the way when confronted with a particularly troublesome enemy, and so on.

This mishmash of adventure and RPG elements works up to a point, though it has to be said that the engrossing adventure game struggles to make up for the so-so throwaway RPG elements. KQ8 for its part is an action-based adventure game with minor RPG elements. I've got to say at this point that I had this game presented to me when I visited Sierra in Seattle.

Roberta Williams was there. If you don't know who Roberta Williams is you've either never played a Sierra adventure game in your life, or you've just been born.

Roberta wrote most of the King's Quest games. She's the one responsible for the masterful storytelling evident in every game in the series, and indeed she's working on the adventure side of KQ8. Well actually I do think so, and in my opinion any title with the gameplay of QFG, a storyline straight from the pen of Roberta Williams, and incredible 3D graphics tarted up with 3Dfx has got to be on just about every PC gamer's wish-list.

You can be sure I'll be keeping a very close eye on this one. MrDaddykins -1 point. Gr8gamer 0 point. I had a glitch when i played this originally. But I wrote to Sierra, they sent me a link to download a fix, and it worked.

Great game. Just wish i could find it in english. Zeus 0 point Windows version. Myrmeko 2 points Windows version.

Dynamic shadows? How is that even possible, this is a really old game! But it looks so cool, i cant wait to play in on DosBox on my phone. Croft 0 point Windows version. Thank you so much for this!!! I literally grew up playing this game and was devastated when my cd cracked I should have backed it up, but as a kid, I didn't know that. So, I already had a paid for disk. I'm glad I found myabandonware. Pink Floyd 1 point Windows version. Tis beyond my reach Lots of bugs, inconsistent,and not a great game.

But surprisingly good in places. One of the best in the series. HalfJack -1 point Windows version. Bulleth -1 point Windows version. When i install the game everything is in french. How i get the game to run in english?

Assman -2 points Windows version.